Critical digital culture and media arts · Since 1993
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Sometimes the online world reveals unsuspected parallel dimensions. This is an unknown restyle of Neural independently (and secretly as we never knew about it) made by NY-based Motion and Graphic Designer, Clarke Blackham. Very nicely made, perhaps only a bit glossier for the magazine’s line, it testifies once more how even your most familiar outcomes can have another life somewhere else.
The value of craft after software sounds rampant sometimes, expressing the freedom of escaping repetitive taps and clicks to accomplish some assumed tasks. Mixing media, electricity, electronics, mechanics and inert objects Graham Dunning has realised a structured track/performance/open script in his “Mechanical Techno: Ghost in the Machine Music.” More than a proof of concept a machine music declination.
Isn’t ASCII Art a perfect form of “graffiti” in 2010s? The 8-bit aesthetics is among the strongest visual references connecting the analogue recent past with the omni-digital present, so why not adopt it to finally have some public art embedded in the present? In Varberg, Sweden, 2016, the GOTO80 crew (feat: Karin Andersson) did it, choosing (not by accident) the Mo Soul Amiga-font.
YesNo by Timo Kahlen feels like “traditional” net art, a well crafted stuck webpage for the user’s aural and clickable enjoyment.
The relationship between Andy Warhol and personal computers (becoming quite popular during his last years) has been only partially investigated beyond his Amiga works. In November 2015, Sotheby’s sold his “Apple (from Ads)” (acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas) for 910.000 USD, and in catalogue’s notes Warhol tells about his meeting with Steve Jobs insisting to give him one and showing him how to draw (even if still in black and white): “we went into Sean [John Lennon’s son]’s bedroom–and there was a kid there setting up the Apple computer that Sean had gotten as a present, the Macintosh model. I said that once some man had been calling me a lot wanting to give me one, but that I’d never called him back or something, and then the kid looked up and said, ‘Yeah, that was me. I’m Steve Jobs.’ And he looked so young, like a college guy. And he told me that he would still send me one now. And then he gave me a lesson on drawing with it. It only comes in black and white now, but they’ll make it soon in color…I felt so old and out of it with this young whiz guy right there who helped invent it.”
Harsh Noise Wally, is a sophisticated mashup mixing strips of Wally, the lazy and cynic colleague of Dilbert with some epic noise music extreme attitudes. Well conceived and assembled.
Minority Report comes closer… Three huge screens at Birmingham New Street railway station are scanning passers-by and play advertisements accordingly. http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/new-street-station-advertising-screens-9920400
GoPro ancestors in the 1960s and 1970s, mainly sport and movie persons like F1 driver Jackie Stewart, Bob Sinclair and Steve McQueen.
Saturday 10 and Sunday 11, at the Auditorium Flaiano Pescara, the meeting will be held New Economy, New Rights , meeting on labor, globalization, neoliberalism and related movements.
Andy Mueller-Maguhn, recently elected as a board member at ICANN for Europe, says in his program: "what lawyers call 'intellectual property' is, as every student of Latin knows a theft to the public domain. And as →
The meeting being held in Dublin on "Copyleft and Open Source Software: History, Applications and Legal Issues", the founder of the Free Software Foundation founder and lead developer of the GNU project, Richard Stallman, said, among →
The European Parliament approved a directive on copyright, that trying to harmonize the legislation of different countries, inaspririsce the persecution of the free dissemination of intellectual works, prompting companies to protect the upstream, through appropriate technologies →
For three days (from today until Sunday) at the Teatro Multipurpose Busy, in Lenin Avenue 3 in Bologna, continue their meetings for free access and free movement of knowledge. Today we talk about SIAE, ricampionature and →
From the fertile mind of Richard Stallman and his followers to the philosophy of free software project was born GNUpedia , a free encyclopedia collective talk about every area of human knowledge, with educational courses attachments. →
Fully succeeded Netstrike anti SIAE yesterday. In addition to the hundreds of people who flocked to the IRC, the site has remained virtually paralyzed, aided by the choice of the site administrators to limit the number →
Today from 15:00 to 18:00 Netstrike against the SIAE (http://www.siae.it). This is perhaps the first Netstrike won even before you begin. Are the data to speak out: 400 accessions public www.siae.it unreachable for ten days (December →
Neural will be present at two important meetings today and tomorrow in Milan on the freedom of access and circulation of knowledge. Today Friday 17:00 to Bulk, in 36 Niccolini, we will discuss Net-thinking – Knowledge →
The last album (A.XL No.1) of Diabolik 'The Invisible Thief' winds around a group of hackers, designed as 'any boys', which contrasts first and then help the heinous character. Note the screens of computers in style →
